Best demon in battle mode and why?

[fkr]

Just want to hear yours on the topic

[Diablo]

Best Demon in Battlemode : Mancubus

Why ? : He is Fat , Flamethrower is OP , lots of HP

[[RKB]Il Saggio]

Pain Elemental.

[fkr]

Originally posted by Diablo:

Best Demon in Battlemode : Mancubus

Why ? : He is Fat , Flamethrower is OP , lots of HP

I thought it was meh.. It has a lot of hp yeah but its slow mobility make for it, a good slayer will melt you with a rocket launcher

Originally posted by Rarity:

Pain Elemental.

I agree on this one coupled with the marauder, way to go

[lackesis]

PE+Marauder best team for now.

[bullerbuller7]

Pain elemental + arch vile is a mean combination because of shields.

[[RKB]Il Saggio]

Yeah but you have to learn to truly master the Archvile. In a pro gamer's hand, Archvile can fffk you up surprisingly fast if he traps you in a damaging area and/or between himself and the other player demon. But if you don't truly master him, his ranged attacks deal ridiculously small damage and are easy to avoid.

[Primal Pain]

Archvile is pretty f*cked. Get Broiling heat upgrade and put down the Lake of fire. Slayer touches it and bam. 25% More damage taken and 25% damage reduction for the slayer and damage from the lake itself. Then its up to the damage dealer demon to pop in and do some damage.
Flame wall is also very good way for blocking pathways and protecting yourself and your teammate.
Combine these with the Archies ability to teleport and you got a pretty nasty support demon.

[SWORDLION]

I think there's no best demon, it all depends on which map and the play style.

[Grooves]

My favorite one to play is the archvile, for summoning demons around the slayer, and area denial with cacos and the sea of fire, it's incredibly fun

[bullerbuller7]

If you have a pain elemental and arch vile, 2 players who know each other and cooperate via discord... I can't imagine how annoying that would be to play against, you can't kill them xD
Timing the loot blocker and timing the shields and healing square would be impossible to kill.

[Firaeveus Carron]

I seem to be performing best with the Archvile. Grabbing the broiling heat and reflective fire wall upgrades turns this demon into a beast, especially if your Slayer opponent likes to get up close.

I was rocking the Mancubus at first, but they feel rather useless if the Slayer maintains their distance. I'm not sure why ID decided to give the Mancubus a smoke screen ability, even if it comes with an upgrade that increases movement speed. They should have given the Mancubus the ground slam ability that creates a slowing, damaging electric field; the one that they use in singleplayer.

The Marauder should have also been a melee character or could have at least shot beams from their axe as they do in singleplayer, rather than having them throw magically regenerating axes.

[Raptor]

Pretty much only Pain Elemental + Marauder is viable against a good slayer. Revenant is starting to look better but most demons are too squishy or too slow to be useful.

[[RKB]Il Saggio]

At times I was afraid of Mancubus as Slayer because of his flamethrower and tanky health bar but he doesn't have shield and has a large hitbox. SSG deals 900 damage and it is easier to hit him fully than a Revenant or a Marauder. Though it is useless to hit him with Ballista.

[Skull of a Crowned Athlete]

It depends on the map and stuff... Boring answer, i know. Archvile is a good way to punish Uber-agressive slayers. The same kind of slayers that rush in with Ballista + SSG without any real strategy. Mancubus is also a lot like the Archvile. The flamethrowers deal very good damage if you can keep the slayer in your range and not die. The hazard zone is just the cherry on top for those 2 demons, really.

The marauder probably has the most transferable skills if you play only slayer. He used to be really meta when he could stack damage resistance but if you know what you're doing The Marauder shouldn't be a problem now unless he's the most twitchy aimer on the planet. But most Marauders i face think they are hot ♥♥♥♥, and try to 1v1 the slayer at any opportunity they get which gets them killed every time.

I haven't talked about Meatball yet... He can fly, has tonnes of HP, a spammable shield that blocks all damage, and if he ever finds himself in a bad spot he can just dash out of there. If he is on top of the ability game he will just barely manage to escape your grasp and resurrect his teammate. Every... Single... Time... If the chaingun shield didn't exist Meatball would be a must pick every game! But because the chaingun shield does exist he's probably no better than the Archvile.

Doot is bad. The mobility and abilities he has doesn't matter if you can just delete him instantly before he can use it to his advantage.